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I agree. However, you can also turn it into a hobby. For example, there are many radio amateurs, who enjoy experimenting with their equipment and sharing thoughts with other amateurs, they actually call it a hobby, although the real purpose of it all is of course to provide emergency...

Regarding the guns and ammo theory, it is true that America is probably the one country in the world where you might need weapons most, but why are so many people so sure that a fast devaluation of the dollar will go hand-in-hand with civil war or "unrest" or whatever you might call it? Isn't...

There used to be a refreshing and informative thread "Physical Gold" started by praetorian2. Unfortunately, I am not 100% sure of the details, since the thread vanished without a trace. I have been doing some thinking as to who or what could motivate the responsible party to erase such a...

The most difficult question they will ask you will probably be something like: If coin blanks are manufactured in such a way that they contain 1.001 oz of gold on average, and 65% of all blanks contain between 1.0008 and 1.0012 oz, what percentage will contain less than 1 oz. Assume a normal...

Socrates did. And I am almost certain that there were many others like him throughout the centuries who were killed off before someone could write about them, or rather before someone who would have written about them ever noticed them.

So anyhoo, maybe those ET members who contibuted the valuable information on the old thread could do so again, just so that ET does not deteriorate from a near objective forum sponsored by advertisers to an advertising site disguised as a forum. In particular, a list of coin dealers with whom...

which of course never happens to any other ET thread. Why didn't they just close it instead of deleting it?

Here's my situation: A few days ago I saw a thread on ET, which I believe was titled "Physical Gold" and started by praetorian2 asking how he could buy cold coins. Now I can't seem to find this thread anymore. Does anyone have any ideas? Which one of these scenarios seems most likely to you...

Not sure what you mean by that. I hope you are not trusting Congress more than the SEC. Or at least not more than you would some creepy looking guy in a dark alley.

While I don't particularly care how much which ET member has in his trading account, I do have one thought that might be worth sharing: Do you remember 4 years ago when $100k used to be considered pocket change? The guy whose job was to sit around at the office and chat or take 3 hour lunch...

Me neither, but a few times I have had no execution when I should have had one. I think most of these are not IB's fault, but I remember one night when my GTC order was cancelled for no good reason. The next morning I would have been already several points in the red, and it kept moving...

Maybe the following theory helps explain the discrepancy: In Italy the premise is that the leaders of the country have to represent what the PEOPLE want. They include their people in the pain of loss of Italian life, because the Italians who died and those who might die in the future, die...

Not if they are all 5-figure accounts.

I haven't had this problem with IB for at least a year, with the exception of ARCA screw-ups, which apparently happen on a daily basis. Could it be that your other sources simply exclude ARCA right away so they don't have to deal with the data those clowns barf at us?

This is an interesting thought. To defend my point, you could start at any given point in the game, I am not necessarily talking about the very first moves of the game, but you have brought up something far more intriguing: How do we know what we call opening theory is valid? We don't. In...

You don't gain anything by eliminating "obviously stupid" moves. You probably know of games where a queen sacrifice leads to a mate in 5 or something like that. Any computer that analyzes the game only 4 moves deep will capture the queen and be doomed. The reason why there are no examples of...

Those of you who argue that in chess there is only a finite number of states, you are correct in principal. HOWEVER, the number of possible states is greater than the number of electrons in the known universe, which is why computers are just as helpless as humans in a brute force approach to...

Why would you think computers would be able to beat the world chess champion in a few years. They have been saying that for decades, and from time to time a computer program comes out that can beat the world champion, but only until he figures out how to exploit the program's weakness. Just...

As far as I know you can watch bloomberg tv on the internet. It can't be much worse than msnbc.

Thanks waggie. Looks very reasonable indeed.